Food for Your Ears

before the printed word, recipes and ruminations about food were oral traditions. With radio and recorded sound, especially the advent of the podcast - there are wonderfully rich stories about foodways found freely in the Internet.
I invite you to explore these inital links, listen to the latest podcasts, and most importantly, edit and add to the list!!

Hidden Kitchens

An amazing radio program, produced by the Kitchen Sisters, all about the preservence of food preparation in the most unlikely and heartwarming places. All the stories are well-researched, full of ambient sound, personable, and addicting. It's pure ear candy!

The direct link to the Hidden Kitchen website, loaded with background information on each radio piece.

New Hidden Kitchen stories are produced roughly once a month. Please explore the links to the most recent :

The Kitchen Sisters also produced a 3 disc audiobook full of selected stories from the Hidden Kitchen Series. A printed book (with recipes from the radio stories) accompanied the release.

An earlier Kitchen Sister radio story on the WPA "America Eats" which ties in nicely to their later work on Hidden Kitchens.

NPR

has a great weekly collection surrounding the food arena




Another interesting food podcast from NPR is the The Kitchen Window, with stories about all things food: recipe histories, seasonal ingredients, holiday food traditions, food travels, and other combinations
Podcasts are produced every Wednesday: